2 volumes (xv, 808 pages) : 31 cm

Thirty essays in 2 volumes represent a wide range of voices and points of view. Moving beyond a straightforward commemorative history, the contributors often tackle contentious issues and question previous, more conventional approaches and assumptions. Each essay represents a snapshot in time, focusing on a person, a trend or an event that has played a significant part in shaping Alberta. Contains maps, archival photographs and illustrations, and explanatory sidebars. Vol. 1 covers from human beginnings to Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, vol. 2 takes readers through the 20th century up to the 2005 centennial

Includes bibliographical references and index

v. 1.: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 13,001 years ago: human beginnings in Alberta / John W. Ives -- The day the dry snow fell: the record of a 7,627-year-old disaster / Alwynne B. Beaudoin and Gerald A. Oetelaar -- Buffalo and dogs: the prehistoric lifeway of aboriginal people on the Alberta Plains, 1004-1005 / Trevor R. Peck and J. Rod Vickers -- The never-ending journey of Anthony Henday / Eldon Yellowhorn -- "With tears, shrieks, and howling of despair": the smallpox epidemic of 1781-1782 / Ted Binnema -- Fatal quarrels and fur trade rivalries: a year of living dangerously on the North Saskatchewan 1806-07 / Gerhard J. Ens -- Economy must now be the order of the day: George Simpson and the reorganization of the fur trade to 1826 / Heather Devine -- On the edge of the great transformation: 1857-58 / Frits Pannekoek -- 1870: a year of violence and change? Hugh A. Dempsey -- "A better life with honour": treaty 6 (1876) and treaty 7 (1877) with Alberta First Nations / Sarah Carter and Walter Hildebrandt -- Too many scared people: Alberta and the 1885 north-west rebellion / Bill Waiser -- 1899 and the political economy of Canada's north-west: Treaty 8 as a compact to share and peacefully co-exist / Brian Calliou -- 1904-1905: Alberta Proclaimed / David Hall

v. 2. The dance of the grizzly bear: boom to bust, 1912-13 / David C. Jones -- Enthusiasm embattled: 1916 and the great war / Duff Crerar -- 1919: "a year of extraordinary difficulty" / David Bright -- From idealism to pragmatism: 1923 in Alberta / Bradford J. Rennie -- 1929: "things are seldom what they seem" / Donald Smith -- 1935: the social credit revolution / Alvin Finkel -- 1948: ghosts and dreams / Patricia Myers -- 1947: the making of modern Alberta / David Breen -- 1951: oil's magic wand / Doug Owram -- 1955 -- celebrating together, celebrating apart: Albertans and their golden jubilee / Frances Swyripa -- 1967: embracing the future ... at arm's length / Max Forna -- Alberta's quiet revolution: 1973 and the early Lougheed years / James H. Marsh -- 1980: duel of the decade / Tammy Nemeth -- 1986: the bloom comes off the wild rose province / Herb Emery -- 1996 -- two Albertas: rural and urban trajectories / Roger Epp -- Alberta in 2004 / David Taras -- Looking back in Alberta history: reflections in a rear-view mirror / Michael Payne. Donald Wetherell, and Catherine Cavanaugh -- Contributors -- Index

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